I know some people might think I’ve got some grudge against Limkokwing University, or a personal axe to grind, but sincerely I haven’t.
I do, however, have a huge concern that Swaziland is about to waste up to E16 million (US$2.1 million) per year in public money it can’t afford to an institution that will not deliver any value.
Limkokwing is great at self-publicity and it has been able to bamboozle a lot of people in governments in southern Africa in the past few years. Swaziland too has fallen under the spell.
But the sad truth is that Limkokwing consistently fails to deliver. I wrote on about the poor experiences students had at Limkokwing in Lesotho, since it opened in 2008. For time and space reasons I didn’t tell all of the stories: seven students shot by police when they protested against the dismissal of their Student Representative Council (SRC) president, for one.
Below is an article from the Lesotho Times, 29 September 2010, that reprises some of the problems of Limkokwing in Lesotho. Can anyone in Swaziland honestly say they don’t expect the same things to happen after the university opens in Mbabane in 2011?
The Swazi Government should abandon its support for Limkokwing before it’s too late.
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